Knowing who you can count on in life and when to admit someone new to that finite list is always tricky decision, doubly so for the autistic lead in Rob Brown’sSilent Things. Rob joins us to discuss the levels of preparation and research required to accurately portray how small decisions can have a major effect on those with autism.

Silent Things (2009)

The friendship between an autistic man and woman becomes threatened when an impulsive teenage girl comes between them.

I think that it’s always fascinating to take a morally corrupt character and try and find that little flicker of humanity and compassion.

MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the decade long incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.